# The EFF in Gauteng says Finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s letter to Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero exposes a metro facing severe financial distress and possible institutional collapse if urgent interventions are not implemented. The minister has threatened to withhold the metro’s grant funding unless it gets its financial affairs in order. The EFF says Johannesburg […]
# Olympics: The International Olympic Committee has lifted all restrictions on Belarusian athletes. Belarusian and Russian athletes were suspended from Olympic competition after Moscow invaded Ukraine in 2022. Belarusian athletes can now compete freely under their own flag and anthem. They can also take part in all qualifying events beginning later this year for the […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says increasing the competitiveness of South African industries will continue to depend on reliable enabling infrastructure in energy and logistics. He delivered the keynote address at the 30th Anniversary of the South 32 Hillside Smelter in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday evening. In the last ten years, the Hillside Aluminium smelter has contributed around 35-billion-rand […]
# The US Court of International Trade has ruled against president Donald Trump’s latest ten-percent across-the-board global tariffs. The court found the administration lacked the justification to enact tariffs under a 1974 trade law known as Section 122. The ruling is the latest legal setback for Trump’s trade policy, after the US Supreme Court earlier this […]
# Build One South Africa says South Africans are ready for a fairer, more transparent labour market. More than one-thousand-200 written submissions in support of the Fair Pay Bill have been received within one week of its gazetting. The Bill, championed by BOSA in Parliament, seeks to amend the Employment Equity Act to introduce three critical reforms. Ending […]
# Athletics: A team of 34 South African athletes will compete at the African Athletics Senior Track & Field Championships in Accra, Ghana, next week. They include 100-metre runner Bradley Nkoana, 800-metre runner Prudence Sekgodiso, hurdlers Rogail Joseph and Marione Fourie, long jumpers Luvo Manyonga, Danielle Nolte, and javelin thrower Jana van Schalkwyk. Ten of […]
# Deputy president Paul Mashatile says work to stabilise the Ditsobotla Local Municipality in North West is ongoing, and progress has been made in addressing service delivery concerns. The municipality faces challenges related to inadequate water and sanitation services, unreliable electricity supply, and poor road infrastructure. He visited the municipality yesterday, as part of the government’s […]
# Moody’s Ratings says improving fiscal performance and steady reform momentum support its view that South Africa’s debt will stabilise this year before gradually declining. The ratings agency estimates that general government debt peaked at 86.8-percent of gross domestic product in 2025, and forecasts a gradual easing to 84.9-percent by 2028. Moody’s has cautioned that […]
# The Freedom Front Plus has expressed concerns about the City of Tshwane’s request to write off a further 1.5-billion-rand in debtors as unauthorised expenditure. In the past 12 months, the metro has recognised nearly six-billion-rand of its debt burden as fictitious or uncollectable. The FF Plus says that if accounting tricks must be employed […]
